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An edition of Race and religion among the chosen peoples of Crown Heights (2006)

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In the first major scholarly work to look beyond the sensationalized violence of August 1991, Henry Goldschmidt explores the everyday realities of Black-Jewish difference in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights. Drawing on two years of ethnographic fieldwork, he argues that collective identities like Blackness and Jewishness are particularly complex in today's Crown Heights because the neighborhood's Afro-Caribbean, African American, and Lubavitch Hasidic communities understand their differences in dramatically different ways--as a racial divide between Blacks and Whites or a religious di.

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Rutgers University Press
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Subjects

African Americans, Attitudes, Jews, Public opinion, Race relations, Relations with Jews, Social conflict, Jews, united states, United states, race relations, African americans, new york (state)

Places

Crown Heights (New York, N.Y.), New York, New York (N.Y.), New York (State)

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2006, Rutgers University Press
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2006, Rutgers University Press
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Table of Contents

I. Collisions: race and religion, a riot and a pogrom
II. Geographies of difference: producing a Jewish neighborhood, kosher homes, racial boundaries
III. The politics of culinary and cultural exchange: white skin, black hats, and other signs of Jews
IV. The voices of Jacob on the streets of Brooklyn: Israelite histories and identities.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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New Brunswick, N.J

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Dewey Decimal Class
305.892/4074723
Library of Congress
F128.68.C76 G65 2006, F128.68.C76G65 2006

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Pagination
p. cm.

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OL3419127M
Internet Archive
racereligionamon00gold
ISBN 13
9780813538839, 9780813538976
LCCN
2005035534
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5415936
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1203367

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